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Elizabeth Henderson Cotten moved to Chapel Hill in 1926 after her husband's death and lived there until she died in 1975. From 1932 she helped J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton build the Southern Historical Collection in the university library as its first curator, and she became the first secretary of the Friends of the Library.
Also found in catalogs as Elizabeth Henderson Cotton.
1875–1975 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
4 works about Elizabeth Henderson Cotten are indexed here, as is one work by Cotten.
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Elizabeth Henderson Cotten's papers, dated 1926 to 1964 with most falling between 1950 and 1964, run to 3,150 items across 7.5 linear feet in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 1650. The work describes a woman historian at work on Hillsborough, historic buildings, the Nash and Kollock School, Tryon Palace and New Bern, Saint John's Church at Williamsboro, and figures such as Virginia Dare.
Correspondence dominates the papers of Charles Mills (1914-1982), approximately 150 items in one linear foot dated 1937 to 1981, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4270. Subjects include American authors and novelists he wrote to or about, among them Paul Green, Betty Smith, Archibald Henderson, Robert Fitzgerald and Clare Leighton, and note a personal narrative of the Second World War in Burma. Chapel Hill social life anchors the local tie.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Cotton, Elizabeth Henderson.
Correspondence, maps and personal narratives of John Henderson Cotten, 1913 to 1982, running from 1928 to 1968, about 975 items in two linear feet, collection 1505 in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. Subjects include Navy service, including maps of Okinawa Island, along with the Cotten family, race relations in Chapel Hill, and the history of the university library.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Cotten, Elizabeth Henderson.
About 110 items dated 1927 to 1995 from Lyman A. Cotten (1909-1991), a member of the university faculty at Chapel Hill, Southern Historical Collection 4944-z. The papers concern social life and customs in Chapel Hill, the Order of Gimghoul, other members of the Cotten family, and description and travel in Japan including Hiroshima. Faculty life at the University of North Carolina runs through the papers.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Cotten, Elizabeth Henderson.
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